Water-wheel



(No Model.)

S. B. GOPP.

. WATER WHEEL. No. 426,263. Patented Apr. 22, 1890. 7,

WITNESSES UNTTEE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL B. GOFF, OF CAMDEN, NE\V JERSEY.

WATER-WH EEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,263, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed July 8, 1889- Serial No. 316,826. (N0 mOdOL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL l3. GOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Camden, State of New Jersey, haveinvented anew and useful Improvement in \Vater \Vheels or Motors, which improvement is fully set forth in the following speci fication and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to water wheels or motors; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the parts thereof, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure]. represents a perspective view of a Water-wheel embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 represents a detail perspective View of a part of the upper wheel. Fig. 3 represents a sectional elevation on line 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 4t represents a detail top plan view of a modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A and T designate the upper and lower supports. A shaft B is mounted in said supports in a vertical position, and on the upper support around the shaft is concentrically arranged a shell or casing 0, having a raceway H. A series of diametrically-arranged paddles D are mounted on the shaft B,and consist of arms formed with depending outerbroadened ends adapted to rotate between the inner surface of a cylinder \V,concentrically arranged Within the shell 0. The said cylinder is attached to the shaft D and is formed with an opening Y. Au annular disk Gis attached to the bottom edges of the depending portions of the paddles D. As shown in Fig. 3, the lower outer corners of the said. paddles are cut away to form an inward bevel a, traveling in close proximity over a circumferential lip E, formed with a shell C, to form circumferential grooves F, in which the outer edge of the annular disk G projects to form a substantially water-tight compartment or bucket between the two opposing surfaces of each pair of paddles, and also to strengthen the said parts against strain.

A disk J is attached to the shaft B within the cylinder 7, having a series of concaved' angular vanes K, attached thereto and to said shaft, being placed. in. position as shown in Fig. 2. The disk J is somewhat less in diameter than the cylinder \V, to provide a space for the downward fall of the water.

A collar N, having a series of slanting curved blades M, is keyed to the shaft B below the support A, and a dished plate L is attached to the lower edges of said blades and collar. A metallic band P surrounds the plate L, being larger in diameter than said plate and held intact therewith by a series of inclined vanes Q, having an opening between each to form a water-passage.

blades M thereon and forms a guard-flange therefor.

A collar V is attached to the shaft B below the plate L and band P, and has a series of slanting blades S attached thereto and at their lower edges to an annular disk R.

In Fig. at a modified or curved form of the vanes S is shown.

The water entering the shell C tangentially strikes the nearest paddle D and forces it around until the next successive paddle is brought into position, and a like operation becomes continuous. The volumesof Water carried between the opposing surfaces of each pair of paddles is carried around to the opening Y in the cylinder \V- and strikes the vanes K on the disks J therein. This further accelerates the speed of the shaft 13, and after the force of each volume of water is spent on said vanes it drops over the periphery of disk J and falls on the plate L against the slanting blades M of the collarN and causes the latter collar, with its blades, plates, and bands, to rotate, The water is centrifugally thrown against the band P and onto the vanes Q, to exert an additional power, and falls downward between said vanes to the lowermost disk, where it strikes the slanting blades S of the disk R and causes a rotary movement thereof. The water is then thrown from the disk R into a suitable waterway. By the combined momentum of the aligned disks the shaft B is caused to rotate rapidly and the disk J and vanes K to run at a high rate of speed, and thereby produce a downward suction to throw the water against the blades M with increased force. By co-operating with the vanes M, plates L,

The band P- projects above and below the plate L and the and band P the water is given a furtherincreased impetus and in this condition strikes the blades S of the lowermost disk with additional power. a

It will be understood that the increased power exerted upon one part of the apparatus is equally distributed in aiding to increase the movements of other parts, as all the mechanism is attached to the same shaft.

Having thus described my invention, wha'tI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A motor consisting of a vertical shaft with upper and lower supports, a casing on said upper support, surrounding said shaft, diametrically-arranged paddles on said shaft and within said casing, said paddles having broadened outer ends, and a cylinder within the outer ends of said paddles and having openings in its sides and bottom, said parts being combined substantially as described.

2. Awater wheel or motorhaving a vertical shaft with an upper and a lower support, a casing surrounding said shaft and on said upper support, a raceway leading into said casing, paddles within the casing having widened outer ends, a cylinder within the said outer ends, having openings in its sides and bottom, and a disk on the shaft, having concave vanes, said parts being combined substantially as described.

3. A water wheel or motor having a vertical shaft with an upper and a lower support, a casing on said upper support, surrounding said shaft, a raceway leading into said casing,

paddles on said shaft and having broadened ends and beveled, as at a, a lip on the lower inside of the casing, a disk secured to the paddles, and a cylinder within the outer ends of the paddles, having openings in its side and bottom, said parts being combined substantially as described.

4. A water wheel or motor having a shaft with upper and lower supports, a casing on the upper support,with raceway leading therein, a cylinder with openings in its sides and bottom and within the casing, paddles on the shaft, with ends between the casing and cylinder, a disk with vanes on the shaft and at the openingin the bottom of the cylinder, and a collar on said shaft and having curved vanes with plates secured on their under sides, and a band secured by'inclined vanes to the said curved vanes, said parts being combined substantially as described.

5. A water wheel or motor having a vertical shaft with upper and lower supports, a casing surrounding said shaft and with a raceway leading therein, a cylinder with openings in its side and bottom, rotary paddles with widened ends between said casing and cylinder, a collar with slanting vanes below said upper support and opening in bottom of cylinder, a plate and a band secured to said vanes, openings being between said plate. and band, and a second collar on said shaft below the first collar and having inclined vanes with a disk, said parts being combined substan tially as described.

6. In a water wheel or motor, the combination of the shaft B with upper support A,the casing O on said upper support, a raceway leading into said casing, the cylinder with side opening Y, the paddles I) with outer broadened ends, the collar N on said shaft B and having the inclined vanes M, dished plate L, and band P, and the collar V with inclined vanes S and disk R, substantially as described.

7. A water wheel or motor consisting of the vertical shaft 13, having the 'upper support A and the lower support T, the casing C on said support A and surrounding said shaft B, a raceway leading into said casing, a cylinder in said casing, with opening in its side and bottom, the rotary paddles D with broadened outer ends,a disk at the said openings-of the cylinder and on the shaft and having concave vanes, collars below said upper support, having vanes, and disks or plates connected therewith, said parts being combined substantially as described.

SAMUEL B. GOFF.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM. A. P. JENNINGS. 

